Actress Jennifer Lawrence is calling out critics of her widely shared essay on wage disparity in Hollywood.
Lawrence, who is the star of the No. 1 movie in America, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,” is not backing down from her critique of the industry that has made her Hollywood’s highest paid actress. In the October essay “Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars?” published in Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter, Lawrence described learning through the hacking of Sony Pictures that she was paid significantly less than her male co-stars for the hit film “American Hustle,” and her frustration with being held to a different standard in terms of how she is expected to behave compared to men.
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“It’s hard for me to speak about my experience as a working woman because I can safely say my problems aren’t exactly relatable. When the Sony hack happened and I found out how much less I was being paid than the lucky people with d—-, I didn’t get mad at Sony. I got mad at myself,” Lawrence wrote at the time.
Despite widespread praise for her essay, Lawrence experienced a backlash as well.








